Pruderies

There are no big biographical revelations, the California editors tell me; simply the man plain, or as a newspaper put it in his own time: "without respect of persons or social conventions, institutions, or pruderies of any kind." ❋ Steve Courtney (2010)

She has stopped my mouth overlong with her pruderies and her scruples. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is diffuse and redundant; he is aloof and dreamy and in bondage to the old pruderies and conventions. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted ❋ Various (N/A)

Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like. ❋ John Thomas Codman (N/A)

Her pruderies and her abandonments of prudery afforded between them an atmosphere as unwholesome as it was easily possible for a man of fervent temperament to live in. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

It ended, to the dressmaker's despair, in her draping her shoulders in a lace scarf and wearing kid gloves to her elbow; but though these pruderies might have spoilt her appearance at Dungemarsh Court, there was no doubt as to its effectiveness at the Woolpack. ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)

The whole subject of national pruderies, in both act and speech, remains to be investigated. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)

The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)

The crack of that great spark emptied the jar; the American people forgot all about their pledges and pruderies during the four years of Civil ❋ Unknown (1918)

She found that it was possible to turn about every one of her reserves and delicacies so that they looked like selfish scruples and petty pruderies, and at this game she came in time to exhaust all the resources of an over-abundant casuistry. ❋ Unknown (1910)

But even its frank acceptance, as of divine origin, of sexual rules so unlike those that are nominally our own, such as polygamy and concubinage, helps to enlarge the vision of the youthful mind by showing that the rules surrounding the child are not those everywhere and always valid, while the nakedness and realism of the Bible cannot but be a wholesome and tonic corrective to conventional pruderies. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

It is always consoling to remember this in an age of petty pruderies. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Women, when their fine natural instincts have not been hopelessly perverted by the pruderies and prejudices which are so diligently instilled into them, understand the art of love more readily than men. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen. ❋ Henry James (1879)

The narrow theological spirit, the moralism < i > à tout propos , the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers. ❋ Henry James (1879)

I'd never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)